Ruth Marcus | Rand Paul is latest Scrooge

12:20 AM,
Dec. 12, 2013

Ruth Marcus

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Ruth Marcus
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WASHINGTON - The year's not over, but it's not too early to declare the hands-down winner of this year's Scrooge award: Sen. Rand Paul.

The Kentucky Republican wants to cut off people's unemployment benefits - not to save taxpayers' money from being frittered away by loafers unwilling to haul themselves out of their comfy hammocks to look for work. No, Sen. Scrooge wants to cut the payments out of solicitude for the long-term unemployed.

Because, as the kindly doctor explained (correctly) on "Fox News Sunday," it is clear that the longer people are unemployed the more difficulty they have ...